Well - my friend and I made it... but, totally the wrong way. We scooted up at the wrong spot and found ourselves climbing a chute. Luckily we made it to the top, traversed around and scrambled upward. We were getting the sense of the way up that this way not FRC, though it was way more safe to move upward than descend. Only did we truly realize our error when we topped out on the false summit and eventually hiked down to the saddle to notice the scree slope we should have taken up from FRC. Oops! Certainly would NOT recommend taking the route up we did, though we got extremely lucky. Need to do more recon on the FRC access point.

Started in the dark from Icehouse Canyon TH and turned off the trail too soon to try to go up Falling Rock Canyon. Started up a loose rock slope and took about a 10' fall on the headwall at the top when my foothold crumbled. Bleeding from every limb on my body, but not really hurt, I traversed over to Falling Rock Canyon and continued to the summit. Then kept going to Ontario, Bighorn, Cucamonga, and Etiwanda.

A friend and I had this exact same issue (turned off too soon, wrong access point), though we bolted upward and got very lucky. Glad to know we weren't the only ones to goof this up! That chute there has quite some rotten rock, I'll agree there. I'm guessing after what we ended up doing, ascending FRC 'proper' probably would have been a breeze.

An unexpectedly cool route! This is a good route to practice on for steep talus, as parts of it seem more like a Sierra mountain than a typical mountain in the San Gabriels. I saw two bighorn sheep up at the saddle between Sugarloaf and Ontario.

Very fun route. Took a side trip up the first scree slope on the left to the ridge between Fir Draw and FRC. Nice views up Ice House Canyon. Came back down and continued up the canyon to the saddle between Sugarloaf and Ontario then on up to the summit. 3 hrs car to car.

he wanted to do it, so I organized it with a group that ballooned to 10 (too many), but still we were successful in avoiding any injuries, although I did manage to take a rock in the forearm. FRC is a lot of fun.

Went up Falling Rock Canyon and the first scree slope west to the peak immediately east of Sugarloaf summit. Continued further on the ridge to Ontario Peak. Climbed Bighorn on the standard trail and descended from the summit directly to Icehouse saddle. Great hike with a lot of up and down steep scree slopes.

After seeing it many times driving up the road we took some climbing gear and scoured its slopes for climbing potential. If it were in my backyard that would be cool but there is better stuff in SoCal. There are 3 or 4 short falls that ice up on good years for some limited ice climbing in Falling Rock canyon. After coming down Sugarloaf one winter my friend slipped and after a hundred feet of so his axe stopped him five feet above the largest falls. We got back to the car after a surprise storm had covered the roads with ice and would strand something like 2 or 3 THOUSAND people in their cars for the night.